The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

gerously Wounds Two of Theni-One
Brother Slabs Another in the Aldo
men Near Woodlawn.
GEORGIA.
John F. Everett residence near Fort Val
ley, was burned Friday.
The City Council of Athens contemplates
purchasing a site for a city hall.
Water has been struck at the artesian
well for the new ice factory at Griffin.
The Macon Presbytery will meet at Mount
Tabor church, at Friendship, on the fifth
Sunday in October.
The contract for building the Baptist
church at Cross Roads, Franklin county.
was bid off by L. II. Crump, at $3.50. The
dimensions of the house are 40 by 90 feet.
Jordan Harrison, a colored farmer and
preacher, living five miles over the river
from Albany in East Dougherty, lost thirty
bales of cotton by an incendiary fire Thurs
day night.
There is soa-. talk among the Columbus
Gun Club of getting up team TO take part
in the shooting tournament in Atlanta dur
ing the Piedmont Exposition. Griffin will
also be on hand.
Out of about IA 600 acres Of good farming
land Immediately surrounding Alapaha
there are perhaps not more than 300 acres
in cultivation. All this land is owned by
five individuals.
T. r. Mitchell, manager of the co-opera-
tive store, at Brunswick, broke one of the
bones of his arm near the wrist by falling
over the roots of an oak tree in his yard a
night or two ago.
r. E. johnson, of Bronson, has now in
his possession the last dollar received for
services rendered in the late unpleasantness
He values it very highly and could not be
ind m RI vifh
will 60 to his son, who will thus hand it
down.
A revival was begun at the Methodist
church at Swainsboro on Saturday week
and continued until Thursday Twenty
mine accessions were made TO the member
ship of the church, and much interest was
taken by the community in the success of
ahe meeting.
A cotton receipt was picked up on the
streets of Athens Friday dated Aug. 10,
n62l. 1t was for cotton received by boat in
Savannah, GA. They quote square bales at
H531, and round bales at l418. At that
me there was hardly such a thing as a
square bale, but wers all round, and seldom
weighed over 100 pounds.
tits probable that the gunners who have
been shooting at clay pigeons will now turn
their attention TO English sparrows. Justice
Freeman, of Macon, has received circular
from an Indianapolis man offering these
sparrows to trap shooters at the rate of S6
per 100, and will send special ground traps
for trapping them at 50 each.
About ] O'Clock Sunday morning Oliver
Granger, colored, who was employed on Mr..
Reichburgs turpentine farm near Midtown,
was shot in his house, by some unknown
party. The wound was Supposed to be fatal
Granger and another negro had a difficulty,
in the early pa of the night, and it is
thought this negro did the shooting
Some time since a boy of Smithville was
seized with the desire to catch buzzard
His parents missed him for the space of a
day, and becoming alarmed went in search
of him. They found hin, in an old field
lying on the grass 81 paving dead. He
said he was dong il - Uci the buZzards so
they would come near enough for him to
catch them.
James G. Fitzpatrick, of Terrell county. a
war-scarred veteran of the Twenty
Georgia regiment, has deck of cards which
he bought in Richmond, Va, in 1889, and
with which the 'boysn whiled many happy
hours away, which otherwise would have
been weary hours. The cards are in a good
state Of preservation, not having been used
since the war.
Collector j. E. Dart visited Darien last
week for the purpose of making a change
in the inspectorship at Doboy. This position
for a number of years has been filled by
strangers, but Mr. Dart. realizing that it
would be only just to have Darien man
fill it, has concluded to do so. Capt. Isaac
ii. Aiken, young man of sterling quail
ties, has, it is rumored, been selected by
Mr.. Dart.
At Snake Shoal, just about Eufaula, the
steamers Naiad and Thronateeska had con-
siderable trouble in passing Friday. Both
steamers had TO use ropes and pullevs, end
after two hours hard work they succeeded
IN passing over the heavy sand bar at that
point. The Naiad also had trouble in pass
ing over a bar below Fort Gaines It is
probable that the steamers cannot navigate
the river until there is rain.
tits said that Representative r. B. Rus
sell has promised certain anti-prohibitioni lists
III Athens to introduce bill in the Legis,a-
ture amending the prohibition act under
which Clarke county went dry, so as to
allow vote on the liquor question again,
on petition being signed by 100 respecta-
bile voters and sent to him. 1t is thought,
however. that there will not be time enough
TO advertise the act and get it through be-
fore the Legislature adjourns.
There seems to be no doubt that the cot
ton crop of Putnam county is cut off to
some considerable extent. Up TO the time
OF the floods crops of corn and cotton were
splendid, but the rains destroyed large
quantity OF corn and injured the cotton.
Since that time cotton has been further in
jured by heat and by the September
weather. However, the county is in a
pretty good fix, notwithstanding the crops
are not as good as they promised TO be-
Lee and John Bond, two brothers, living
near Woodlawn, had difficulty Thursday
about bride. Lee knocked John down
with a fence rail, whereupon the latter
stabbed the former in the abdomen, infiict-
iIg two severe wounds, and also cut a
lengthy cash in his back. Their father
Capt. Z. w. Bond who is one of the best
and most prominent citizens of the county
is stricken down with grief and humilia.
ton. The wounds are not thought TO be
fatal.
On the Richmond and Danville railroad
IN North Georgia, is tract of land that the
company, some time ago, bought from q
native for $40 per acre. Recently, il has
been discovered that the land is covered
with fine gravel. that contains no dirt
and makes a magnificent ballast. Carloads
are being shipped farther north and sold
The absence Of dirt renders the road where
this gravel has been used as ballast free oil
dust, which, of course, during the summer
is of great advantage.
r. J. Shore left Athens several years ago
and went up on the AR lime to start a saw
mill, and has made sertt ne out of it. HI
saw that there was mo ~ i'm it when prop
erlv managed and as soon MS no coulr